There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

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.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I don’t try to control my days.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

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

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.