We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

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

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I’m chasing perfection.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

A word after a word after a word is power.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.