The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

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

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

I bear a charmed life.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

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

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

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

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

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 just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Music is really driving my whole life.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

Life is a song to me.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

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 true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

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.