I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

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

People say that I’m a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

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

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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?

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

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

I draw from the crowd a lot.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

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’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

There’s no formula.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.