Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

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

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

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

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Imagination decides everything.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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 like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

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

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

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.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.