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

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The doer alone learneth.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

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

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

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.

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

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

What is past is prologue.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

No man was ever wise by chance.