If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

What one has to do usually can be done.

One man with courage is a majority.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Desire is the very essence of man.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.