Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

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

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

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.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

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

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Solitude is independence.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

The future will be better tomorrow.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.