We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

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

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

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.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

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.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

Find people who will make you better.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.