Johnny Carson Quotes

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

I did find my direction at an early age.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.