To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I dwell in possibility.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

In art the best is good enough.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

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

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Energy begets energy.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

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.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

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.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

To create something you must be something.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.