Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

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.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Fight with a happy heart.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

I’m chasing perfection.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.