If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

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’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

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.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.