I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

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.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I am results-oriented.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

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.

Nothing will work unless you do.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

I’m not the most patient of people.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

No driver is perfect.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

My life is my message.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

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.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Bring them on.

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

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.