Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

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

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.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

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

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.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

I think that success is having fun.

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

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘