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

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Nothing will work unless you do.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

What one has to do usually can be done.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

All of my writing is God-given.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

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

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.