In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

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

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Children make your life important.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I’m not a futurist.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

All art is quite useless.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

War is the business of barbarians.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.