Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I am happy and I’m single.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

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.‘

Silence is a source of great strength.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.