I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

Without failure there is no achievement.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

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

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.