Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

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.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

He that rises late must trot all day.

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

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

What one has to do usually can be done.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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 can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

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.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I like to take it easy.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

I like surprises.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.