It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

I dwell in possibility.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

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

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Americans never quit.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

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.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.