Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

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.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

I don’t do research. I never have.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

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

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Americans never quit.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

You have to be someone.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.