The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

My whole life is a theater piece.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

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.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Be not a slave of words.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

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

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

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

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

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

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven’t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‚The Tonight Show.‘ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!