Selected personal development quotes

1. Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

2. I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

3. What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

4. I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

5. It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

6. For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

7. Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

8. Your best teacher is your last mistake.

9. During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.

10. I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

11. The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

12. We are each responsible for our own life- no other person is or even can be.

13. There's no question that His Holiness is my root guru, and he's been quite tough with me at times. I've had to explain to people who sometimes have quite a romantic vision of His Holiness that at times he's been cross with me, but it was very skillful. At the moment he did it, I'm not saying it was pleasant for me, but there was no ego attachment from his side. I'm very thankful that he trusts me enough to be the mirror for me and not pull any punches. Mind you, the first meetings were not that way; I think he was aware how fragile I was and was being very careful. Now I think he senses that my seriousness about the teachings has increased and my own strength within the teachings has increased. He can be much tougher on me.

14. I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.

15. Man needs knowledge as well as education to the end of his life. No man can do without them.

16. Try to enhance morality among this nation. It is by morality that you can preserve your independence and attain to stages of excellence.

17. Try to know everything of something and something of everything.

18. Teenage angst has paid off well Now I'm bored and old.

19. Smart, and Gets Things Done

20. When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, ...he has out-grown what before used to direct him, ...he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and ...be guided by it. ...a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity...

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

22. I want to keep growing and learning as much as possible. I want to fill myself in on all aspects of the industry - acting and directing. (1988)

23. Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

24. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

25. Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.