I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.
It's not easy to talk about myself at all.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.
I don't make friends easily.
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
[Denzel Washington] was rustling with something and when he came back it was with a word about loving myself and the body that I'm in because I was still going on and on about the weight thing. I just liked that, because what people don't understand is that so much of what blocks us as actors is so personal.
I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
The tricky thing is, from what I've heard, I'm a bit emotionally unavailable.
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing.
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
