Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Character is power.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A useless life is an early death.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

I owe my solitude to other people.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.