What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Find people who will make you better.

Dream and you shall become.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

What you are comes to you.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

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

What keeps me going is goals.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Never complain. Never explain.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.