If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

My life is my message.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

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

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.