I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

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.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

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

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Dream and you shall become.

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

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

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 may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

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.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

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

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

If you deserve it, go get it.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.