The human race is governed by its imagination.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

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.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

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

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

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

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

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.

I never played with anything like toys.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.