Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

I’m about being the best.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

The time is always right to do what is right.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

The best way out is always through.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

All art is but imitation of nature.

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

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.