If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

I believe that one person can make a difference.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Belief creates the actual fact.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Never regret what you don’t write.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I do believe in self-help.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

As you think, so shall you become.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I think that success is having fun.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.