Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

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

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Men must know their limitations.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Character is power.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I’m much healthier now.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Never complain and never explain.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.