“There is a lot of joy to be found in reflecting upon your experiences as you work towards your dreams.”

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

In order to change your life, you must change your thoughts.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Learning to say no is a critical element to access greatness in your life.

On the path to success, there is always going to be an opportunity to help someone else be successful too. Take that opportunity, and be the kind of person who makes a difference in the lives of others.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

Don’t be afraid to learn from others mistakes, and take bits of useful information or ideas that help you get better at what you do.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my ‘dream education’ at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

And despite it all, we dream. That is our greatest resistance.

Every dream deserves a chance to live.

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it’s put me now!

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

I dream a lot about football and a lot of them have come true for me.