To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

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

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

My life has been very full.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

My drive is other people’s success.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.