I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

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.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

We love things we love what they are.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

All you need is love.

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.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

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?

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

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.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Life loves the liver of it.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.