The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

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.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I’m no genius.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

I am just one human being.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.