Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

The fashion I’ve acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I’ve collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

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’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

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.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

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

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

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

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.