Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

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

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

What is once well done is done forever.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I always entertain great hopes.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.