Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

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.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

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

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Energy begets energy.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

We’re all dreamers.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.