Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I sell escapism.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

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

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

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

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

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

Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.