Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Aim for the highest.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Energy begets energy.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Everybody has a purpose.

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

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Life is a dead-end street.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.