One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

I was raised to be independent.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

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.

Our life is made by the death of others.

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.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

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

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.