How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

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

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Imagination decides everything.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.