People can cry much easier than they can change.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

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

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

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

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Football is a sad game.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Acting is happy agony.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.