The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.