We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Life loves the liver of it.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

You fail only if you stop writing.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

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

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

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

If I can be a leader, I will.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

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.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

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.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.