You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

A lie cannot live.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

See, winners embrace hard work.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.