I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

To create something you must be something.

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.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Love is only one of many passions.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Passions are the gales of life.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I can dance to just about anything.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.