We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

The future is purchased by the present.

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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I’m chasing perfection.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

God’s desire is that we excel.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

There’s no formula.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That’s what Norman Mailer did. That’s what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that’s what I do – that’s what I mean to do.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.