I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

To create something you must be something.

I want people to draw strength from me.

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

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

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

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.