The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

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.‘

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

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 still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.