There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

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.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Money does not change people, people change.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

God has entrusted me with myself.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

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

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

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