Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Our work is never over.

Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

Never mistake motion for action.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.