There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Little things affect little minds.

The only shame is to have none.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

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.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

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

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I’m no genius.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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