When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

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.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

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

Some people would like me to be round again.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

I think I have always had a little humor.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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?

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

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.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

You can be happy where you are.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Affluence means influence.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.