To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

To live is to think.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

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

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

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

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

It is important to remember yourself.

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.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

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.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.