I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

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?

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Everybody has a purpose.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

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

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Enemies are so stimulating.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

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?

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

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

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.