A day without laughter is a day wasted.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

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

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

The earth laughs in flowers.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Never mistake motion for action.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.