Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

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.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

I like pushing boundaries.

I dwell in possibility.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

You fail only if you stop writing.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.