Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

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.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Aim for the highest.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

I think and that is all that I am.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Never complain and never explain.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Success is the child of audacity.