Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Being humble matters.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The doer alone learneth.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

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

I’m not really book-smart.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I want people to draw strength from me.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

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.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

A word after a word after a word is power.