The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

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

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal… ‚Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?‘

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

I am happy and I’m single.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

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

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

I only act from my heart.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

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

Music is in my DNA!

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I think that I’m perfect.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.