You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

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.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Bad men are full of repentance.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

People want you to fail.

Begin with the end in mind.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Forget the past.