Live the life you’ve dreamed.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

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

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

No pressure, no diamonds.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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.

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

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

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.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Life well spent is long.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.