I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

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

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

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

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Life must be lived as play.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. 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.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

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

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

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.‘

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.