One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

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

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

What is past is prologue.

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.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

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.

Imagination rules the world.

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.

Never regret what you don’t write.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

Life is anything but predictable.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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 world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

To create something you must be something.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

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

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Faith Hill is a big role model.