Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

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

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

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

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

My fat never made me less money.

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Women should be obscene and not heard.