My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs… it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian.
I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.
It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.
I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I’m too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn’t know my story. Because if they did, they’d know that anything is possible.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.
My moms always told me, ‘How long you gonna play the victim?’ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Let me tell you something – being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for ‘Watch the Throne?’ That was surreal, man. One of those situations I’ll never forget. I’ll be able to show my kids the footage of when Jay-Z brought me onstage.
Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They’ve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That’s me.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
I’d like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.
To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
