As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Everybody has a purpose.

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.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

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

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

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

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

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.

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 need drama in my life to keep making music.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

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.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

When I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.