Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

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.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

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.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

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

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I am happy and I’m single.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

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.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.