One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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.

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

I never played with anything like toys.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Only the educated are free.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.