Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Our life is made by the death of others.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

When I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I’m afraid to fail again.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.