We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I’m not a bad person.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

God has entrusted me with myself.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

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

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.