The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

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

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

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.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

I just want to be myself.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I can express myself.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

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.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.