The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

I defy gravity.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Character is destiny.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I’m much healthier now.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.