There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I’m filthy rich!

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

To make headway, improve your head.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.