To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

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

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I teach children to be winners.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

There’s no formula.

I have good days and bad days.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.

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

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.