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.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I create stars.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Losing is tough.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don’t ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I’m writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.