I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Our best thoughts come from others.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

All of my writing is God-given.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

From caring comes courage.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Dream and you shall become.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.