When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

I love being busy.

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn’t think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Imagination decides everything.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I never played with anything like toys.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I think that success is having fun.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.