Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

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

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

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

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.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

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

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

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

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

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.

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

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.