My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Few people realize that luck is created.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

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

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

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

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.