Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

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

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Big results require big ambitions.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Small aim is a crime.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Bring them on.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.