I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

I dwell in possibility.

I really have no interest in myself.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

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.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Well done is better than well said.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

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.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Mine is better than ours.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

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

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

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.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

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.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

No man is hurt but by himself.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.