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

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

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

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

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

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.