I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

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.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

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

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.