Keep grinding boy, your life can change in one year, and even when it’s dark out, the sun is shining somewhere.

Be confident and give it [your] best.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

Hope is an elixir of life. It is the engine that propels us forward in our pursuit of countless goals, all of which might otherwise be impossible to undertake if we were bereft of hope.

If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.

Freedom from fear offers you the freedom to be the greatest version of yourself.

Everyone was telling me you have this great potential and you can be on top. I didn’t believe that, but everyone was just telling me to believe in myself. I did and I’m kind of up on top and it’s amazing.

You’ve got to be confident when you’re competing. You’ve got to be a beast.

Beware the dangers of unchecked government power.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

If you push yourself to stay hungry, you’re always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you’re taking steps forward, then you’re making progress.

In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.

The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing. He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end, they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the government every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of the government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, so that the people may have more

And my opponent won’t rule out raising taxes. But I will. And the Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again. And I’ll say to them: Read my lips. No new taxes.

Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.

You can do it, put your back into it.

More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist – anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It’s the best form of entertainment, and it’s still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.