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

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

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

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

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

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

We are all alike, on the inside.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

I’m not a bad person.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Let go of yesterday.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

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?‘

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.