I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Only the insecure strive for security.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

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

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘