God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.