I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

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

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

And winning is a huge thing for me.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Without failure there is no achievement.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Losing is tough.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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

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

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Hope is a waking dream.