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

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Example is leadership.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

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

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

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

How can we help President Obama?

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

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

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

You have to be someone.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Never, never, never give up.