Travel teaches toleration.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

All of our problems start in our minds.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

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 want to put a ding in the universe.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

I make good music for long journeys.

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

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I think that I’m perfect.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

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

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

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

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The self is hateful.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.