You know, most people really don’t know me.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I’m a genetic optimist.

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

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’m not a natural joiner.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I like pushing boundaries.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

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

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

My life is my message.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.