If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Pessimism never won any battle.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Disagreement is something normal.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

A word after a word after a word is power.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

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

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

I can do whatever I want.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘