We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

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.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

No pressure, no diamonds.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The only shame is to have none.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.