Exploration by real people inspires us.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

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.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Passions are the gales of life.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Where love is, there God is also.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I make good music for long journeys.

Nothing can come of nothing.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

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.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.