I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

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.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

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.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

The time is always right to do what is right.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Learn to think continentally.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘