People want to feel hopeful.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

We are what we believe we are.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

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

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

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

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.