Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Every summer’s mine.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

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

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

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.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.