Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

I have wasted my hours.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I’m a genetic optimist.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

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.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

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

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

We are wiser than we know.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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 more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

Never complain and never explain.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.