Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Learn to think continentally.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Man is not made for defeat.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

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.

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

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

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

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.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

God’s desire is that we excel.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Example is leadership.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.