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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Men want to make women happy.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.