It is always your next move.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.