There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

How I love David Bowie.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

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.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I love imperfections.

We were poor, but we smiled.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

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.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

My message is that God is a good God.

Fun is good.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.