The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

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.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Big results require big ambitions.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

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.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Nothing will work unless you do.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

I have goals.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

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.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

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

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

I like to work and am a focused person.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

We’re all dreamers.

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.