To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

All of my favorite people – people I really trust – none of them were cool in their younger years.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I hate the past – especially my own past.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.