Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Passions are the gales of life.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

Choose people who lift you up.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

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

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

God’s desire is that we excel.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

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

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

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

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Never regret what you don’t write.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Bring them on.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Big results require big ambitions.

All art is quite useless.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.