Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

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

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.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Get mad, then get over it.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

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.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

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

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.