It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

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.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I already am a product.

I have wasted my hours.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Fight with a happy heart.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Libraries raised me.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

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.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Enemies are so stimulating.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

What keeps me going is goals.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

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

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.