I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Never complain. Never explain.

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

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Working out anchors my day.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I’m selfish.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.