The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The future is purchased by the present.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.