Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Only the educated are free.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

People want you to fail.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.