Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

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

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Bring them on.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Man is not made for defeat.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

I dwell in possibility.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Before all else, be armed.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.