You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

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

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.