When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

My drive is other people’s success.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Nothing can come of nothing.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

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

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

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’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

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.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

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.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

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

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.