As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

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.