An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

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

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

You are victors, not victims!

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

I’m about being the best.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

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

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.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

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.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

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

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

There is little success where there is little laughter.