To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Never mistake motion for action.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

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

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

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.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

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?‘

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

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.