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

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

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

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

You are victors, not victims!

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Aim for the highest.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

It is always your next move.