Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

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.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

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

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

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.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

My wife and I are very affectionate.