A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I’ve learned never to say never.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

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.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

From caring comes courage.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

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

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Success is the child of audacity.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

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

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

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.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.