Stand a little less between me and the sun.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

The best is the enemy of the good.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

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.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Always do whatever’s next.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

You fail only if you stop writing.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Be not a slave of words.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.