How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I do believe in self-help.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

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

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

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

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Never mistake motion for action.

Giving up cannot be an option.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Never complain. Never explain.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.