He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

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

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Dream and you shall become.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Well done is better than well said.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.