People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

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.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Travel teaches toleration.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

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.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Things do not change; we change.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

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

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

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.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

I always wanted a family.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?