The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

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

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Nobody is my boss.

There is nothing so stable as change.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Choose people who lift you up.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.