Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

The doer alone learneth.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Where love is, there God is also.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I always have to be writing.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

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.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

One man with courage is a majority.

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.‘