The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

Never take anything for granted.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

We all have done something unethical.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

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

I disagree with everything I used to say.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

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.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.