The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

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

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

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.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

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