Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Dream and you shall become.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

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

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

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.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.