Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

No great thing is created suddenly.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.