I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

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

Life is anything but predictable.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Applause waits on success.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

America is another name for opportunity.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

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

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

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.‘

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.