Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

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

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The only shame is to have none.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Never, never, never give up.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

The Internet is a big distraction.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.