Some guys look better as they get older.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

What is true belongs to me!

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

You are victors, not victims!

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

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 want the world to see my body.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

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

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I still think I am the greatest.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.