When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I’m a genetic optimist.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Never complain. Never explain.

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

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

All of our problems start in our minds.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

There are no second acts in American lives.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.