It took me a long time to realise that I need to stay true to my game.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think

Maybe I just wasn’t a show-biz type. I didn’t miss performing at all

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Early on, I used to think it was really cool and macho to jump out of the car and tackle the bad guy. But then when you see the stunts in the movie, you realize it could’ve been a lady in a poncho.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Stop expecting people to support your dreams. It’s yours.

Love, to be real, must always involve some self-sacrifice.

Sometimes I’m so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

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?

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice

If words suffice not, blows must follow

To understand the world, one must not be worrying about one’s self.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

There’s nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can’t prolong

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.