There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

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

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

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.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

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.‘

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

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

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

For me, education was power.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

My life is my message.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Power is competence.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

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.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.