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.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

People want you to fail.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

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

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

Genius is patience.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Never take anything for granted.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.