You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

You can be passionate about anything.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Competition is a sin.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

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.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

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

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

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

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.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

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

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I have goals.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.