Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

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

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I can handle pain.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Competition is a sin.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.