When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

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.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Nothing will work unless you do.

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.

See, winners embrace hard work.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

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

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

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.

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

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I always wanted to be loved.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

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.

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

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

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

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.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.