Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I think that I’m perfect.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

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

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Enemies are so stimulating.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Touring is hard on the body.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

I think and that is all that I am.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

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

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘