The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Life loves the liver of it.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

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.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Better is the enemy of good.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

I do believe in self-help.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

The only shame is to have none.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.