Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

My life is real.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I live in a crazy time.

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

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

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

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

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.