Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Be as you wish to seem.

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

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

You can’t go backward in life.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Being humble matters.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I’m no genius.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.