Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

One man with courage is a majority.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

Life is a song to me.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

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.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

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

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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 think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.