Everybody has a purpose.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

I learned from the guys before me – Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Man is not made for defeat.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

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

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

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

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

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.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

What is true belongs to me!

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I teach children to be winners.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.