Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I am two with nature.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

The law is reason, free from passion.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

I like being a writer.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I love food.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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.