Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

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.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

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

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

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

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.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

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.

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.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Fight with a happy heart.

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

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.