We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

God’s desire is that we excel.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Affluence means influence.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Never complain and never explain.

What we think, we become.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

People want you to fail.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.