What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

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.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

Never complain. Never explain.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

People want you to fail.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.