We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

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

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.