The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

A lie cannot live.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

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

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Solitude is independence.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.