The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

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.

Boldness be my friend.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

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.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Fight with a happy heart.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

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

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Adventures are to the adventurous.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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

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

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.