My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

I was becoming post-ideological.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Genius, when young, is divine.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

We boil at different degrees.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.