A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Aim for the highest.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

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.