My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

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

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

I think that I’m perfect.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Before all else, be armed.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Power is competence.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

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

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.