We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.