I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

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.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I am fearless.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I’m a genetic optimist.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

What we think, we become.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!