I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

I like pushing boundaries.

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

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

Few people realize that luck is created.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

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.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

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.

Genius is patience.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.