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

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

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

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Success is not a stop sign.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Applause waits on success.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Every summer’s mine.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘