If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.