Whatever you do, do with all your might.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

I always make my dreams into goals.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

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.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

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

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.