And die of nothing but a rage to live.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

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

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

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

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

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 should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.