Without tact you can learn nothing.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

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

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Money has a language of its own.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.