You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I already am a product.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Success has always been a great liar.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

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

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.