Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I don’t care about money.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

Dream and you shall become.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Character is destiny.

I focus on my own job.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

Never find fault with the absent.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

You have to be someone.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

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

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

You can be passionate about anything.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.