The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

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

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

What we live by we die by.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

The worst men often give the best advice.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.