If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

A true man hates no one.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

People want to feel hopeful.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

He who is brave is free.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

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

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

I’m not a natural born performer.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Only the educated are free.

I’m not the most patient of people.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

You can be happy where you are.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.