In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

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.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

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.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

Begin with the end in mind.

I always make my dreams into goals.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

All great achievements require time.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.