We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.