My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Never complain. Never explain.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

We’re all dreamers.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

My life is my message.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I only want my work to make people happy.