Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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

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

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

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.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

How I love David Bowie.

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.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

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

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

New roads; new ruts.

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

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

I’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.