Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

A person hears only what they understand.

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

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.