Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

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.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

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.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.