You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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?

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Never complain and never explain.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

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

Talent without working hard is nothing.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

My drive is other people’s success.

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

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

As I read more and more – and it was not all verse, by any means – my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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 always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.