Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

The doer alone learneth.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

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?

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

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.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Knowledge is true opinion.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

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.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.