I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

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 feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‚Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.‘ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‚I’m out of eggs. What have you got?‘

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

I never played with anything like toys.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

I made the track ‚Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola‘ before I met Balvin.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.