Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

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

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

All diseases run into one, old age.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

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

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

MySpace is an addiction.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.