If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

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.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

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.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

I like to work.

I am results-oriented.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

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

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

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

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

My drive is other people’s success.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

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

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.