Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

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.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

A home without books is a body without soul.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Art is the proper task of life.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.