In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

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.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Aim for the highest.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

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

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I do believe in self-help.

Never confuse motion with action.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

I believe in singing.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

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

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

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.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.