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.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Action expresses priorities.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

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

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Life must be lived as play.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.