“The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.”

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

People who say “it is impossible”, should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself.

I’ll be back.

I think the first and most important thing is that you’ve got to have a goal and a vision.

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

The pain that you hold is yours. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Don’t be afraid to fail. Anything that I’ve ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can’t always win, but don’t be afraid of making decisions.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit – a spirit that demands self-expression .

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.