Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Life is anything but predictable.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

There is no wealth but life.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Life is our dictionary.

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

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.