You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Never complain. Never explain.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Bring them on.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Character is power.

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.‘

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.