When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

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.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Solitude is independence.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

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.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Never mistake motion for action.

I’m perpetually lonely.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.