Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

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.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I can express myself.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Things do not change; we change.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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.

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

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

One man with courage is a majority.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

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

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.