You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

It is natural to want to have a future.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

There is always safety in valor.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Fortune befriends the bold.

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

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I don’t believe in icons.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.