If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

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.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

To lead people walk behind them.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.