The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

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.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

The doer alone learneth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Everybody has a purpose.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.