Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

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

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I’m not the most patient of people.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Genius, when young, is divine.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

The only shame is to have none.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The way to know life is to love many things.

By indignities men come to dignities.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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!

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

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

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.