Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

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.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Always do whatever’s next.

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.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I don’t want followers.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

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.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

What you are comes to you.

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

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

My life is mine to remember.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.