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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Young people can create beautiful things.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That’s what Norman Mailer did. That’s what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that’s what I do – that’s what I mean to do.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

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.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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?

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

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

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

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

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.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Music is really driving my whole life.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.