You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Action expresses priorities.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

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

Exploration by real people inspires us.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

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

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‘.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

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

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

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

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.