I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

What I love best in life is new starts.

This lady is not for turning.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

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.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

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.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

A leader is a dealer in hope.