The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I worked my face off.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

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

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.