Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Action expresses priorities.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Music is in my DNA!

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I dwell in possibility.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Who, being loved, is poor?

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.