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

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

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

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

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

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

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

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Aim for the highest.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

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

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

I want people to draw strength from me.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.