Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

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.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

We’re all dreamers.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

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

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

The art is long, life is short.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.