If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

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

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.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Fortune befriends the bold.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

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

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

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

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

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

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Every President wants to do right.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.