Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

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.

A person hears only what they understand.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

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

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I don’t want followers.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.