It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

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.

Life well spent is long.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

If you can dream it, you can do it.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

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

It is easier to be critical than correct.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

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

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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