I can’t do nothing just a little.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Never complain. Never explain.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Don’t ever play yourself.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

What is once well done is done forever.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.