Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I owe my solitude to other people.

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

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Mine is better than ours.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

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

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

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

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I hate to be smart.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

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

I came up from a difficult background.

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.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Love is a state of being.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.