Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Losing is tough.

I’m chasing perfection.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.