I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Art is the proper task of life.

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

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

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.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.