I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I dwell in possibility.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Never take anything for granted.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

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

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.