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.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

I can’t do nothing just a little.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Success is not a stop sign.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!