You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

Dream big, but stay humble.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.