Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

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

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.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I learned from the guys before me – Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Art is the proper task of life.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

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

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

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