“All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.”

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You, you fill me up.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

We don’t know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

I believe the Japan-U.S. alliance is the only indispensable alliance, and I’d like to use my visit to further strengthen this relationship.

I just want to continue the way I am going.

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.