Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

One man with courage is a majority.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

In the future, you won’t buy artists‘ works; you’ll buy software that makes original pieces of ‚their‘ works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.