I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Fight with a happy heart.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

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

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I know love is the answer.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

The best way out is always through.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I only want my work to make people happy.

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.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.