Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

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.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Dream and you shall become.

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.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Humble people ask for help.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

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.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

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

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.