To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Music is like film to me.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

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

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.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Everybody likes a compliment.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

Always do whatever’s next.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Fun is good.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

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