Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

What we think, we become.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I’m about being the best.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

An unused life is an early death.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

The only shame is to have none.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

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.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

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.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Desire is the very essence of man.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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