I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

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

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

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.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Our work is never over.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Dream and you shall become.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

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

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.