“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”

“If you climb up step by step, you’ll always find yourself level with a step.”

“Fame does not define me. If you are looking for fame to define you, then you will never be happy and you’ll always be searching for happiness, and you will never find it in fame. Fulfillment comes from within you, by being authentic to yourself — not chasing fame.”

“If you talk to gangsters long enough, you’ll find out they’re just as bad as respectable people.”

“Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”

“You can love ‘em till your well runs dry, Belford, but you can never love ‘em enough, and you know it. No matter how much others might love you, you can’t love yourself unless you’re in charge of your own actions, and you’ll never take charge as long as you can get away with blaming your shortcomings and misfortunes on your family or society or your race or gender or Satan or whatever…”

“You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.”

“When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.”

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”

“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”