However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

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

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

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

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

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

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Think and grow rich.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Example is leadership.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

If I can be a leader, I will.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.