Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

You can be happy where you are.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

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.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

We work to become, not to acquire.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.