If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the ‚what happens‘ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

I want to show audiences I can act.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I play a nobody in Japan.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

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

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.