Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Where there is love there is life.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Character is power.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

No driver is perfect.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Only the insecure strive for security.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.