How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates is that they keep giving back.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Flowers are happy things.

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

I've wanted recognition I wanted success I wanted appreciation I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

Sometimes ideas come so quickly that I have to stop working on one song to start another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you...

Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I'd love to bring those interests to a show like...

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable...

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula...

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say...

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I...

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.