Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Love is only one of many passions.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

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.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Things do not change; we change.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.