I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

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

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Never mistake motion for action.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Marriage is the death of hope.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

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 can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.