Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Better is the enemy of good.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

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?

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

I grew up cursing a lot.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.