The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.

You must first forgive yourself in order to forgive others.

I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldn’t love him if it weren’t right.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

Paul Hollywood's "You're under baked" is even better than "You're fired."

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.