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.

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.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

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

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

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.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

A man of courage is also full of faith.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

All of my writing is God-given.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.