Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

People want to feel hopeful.

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

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

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.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

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

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

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.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

‚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 bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Art is the proper task of life.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

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

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

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

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

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

A home without books is a body without soul.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

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

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

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

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

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.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.