You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

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

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

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

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

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

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

People want you to fail.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

I can do whatever I want.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

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.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.