On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

Our work is never over.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

For me, education was power.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

What keeps me going is goals.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

No pressure, no diamonds.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.