We are wiser than we know.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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 think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I’m constantly thinking.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

I came up from a difficult background.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.