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

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

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.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.