Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

For me, education was power.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

No great thing is created suddenly.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Little things affect little minds.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.