Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

All of my favorite people – people I really trust – none of them were cool in their younger years.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

I hate the past – especially my own past.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.