If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

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.

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

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Competition is a sin.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.