Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

Art is the proper task of life.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

There’s no formula.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

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

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.