So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

The only way round is through.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

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.‘

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

An unused life is an early death.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Life loves the liver of it.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.