Energy begets energy.

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.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

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

Always do whatever’s next.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.