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.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

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

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

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.

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

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

I believe in singing.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Love is only one of many passions.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

I just want to keep writing music.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.