The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

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.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

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

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

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

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

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 always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Desire is the very essence of man.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.