Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

There is spontaneity to my work.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

I want people to draw strength from me.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Only the insecure strive for security.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

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

If a man does his best, what else is there?

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

People want to feel hopeful.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

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

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.