I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine… before she realizes she’s reading.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in ‚The Dark Knight‘ had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that’s how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it’s a totally different story.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.