Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

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.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Dream and you shall become.

What is past is prologue.

Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

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

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Of course, I do everything for money.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.