I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

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.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

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

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

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.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

The future will be better tomorrow.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

All of my music is honest.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Competition is a sin.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.