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

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

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

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

I worked my face off.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

The time is always right to do what is right.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

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

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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 believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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

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

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

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

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.