My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

How can we help President Obama?

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Before all else, be armed.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

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

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.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.