He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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?‘

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Big results require big ambitions.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Affluence means influence.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Without failure there is no achievement.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.