From caring comes courage.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Every wall is a door.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

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.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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

While there’s life, there’s hope.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

One man with courage is a majority.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Hope is a waking dream.