Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

People want to feel hopeful.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

I have won this lottery. It’s a gigantic lottery, and it’s called Amazon.com. And I’m using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

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.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Giving up cannot be an option.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.