All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Going home helps the content.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

I like a colorful sock. I’m a sock man.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.