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.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

What one has to do usually can be done.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

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

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I never expected to be anybody important.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Applause waits on success.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.