Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The future is purchased by the present.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

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.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

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

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Life must be lived as play.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

I don’t get bored.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.