In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

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.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

I like being a writer.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

People want you to fail.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Dream and you shall become.

I made all my generals out of mud.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.