My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

My son has died of AIDS.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Aim for the highest.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

From caring comes courage.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

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

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.