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

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Money can’t buy life.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

I do believe in self-help.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

I teach children to be winners.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

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.

My whole life is a theater piece.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.