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

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Everybody has a purpose.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

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.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

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.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The lie is a condition of life.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.