To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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.

Aim for the highest.

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

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

There’s no formula.

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

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Energy begets energy.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Where love is, there God is also.

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.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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

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

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

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

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.