We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

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.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Never complain. Never explain.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

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

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

My drive is other people’s success.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.