Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I’m not perfect.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

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

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

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.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I believe time wounds all heels.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

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

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

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

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

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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.

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.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.