It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

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

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

I can dance to just about anything.

We love things we love what they are.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.