For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

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!

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.