Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

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.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

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.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

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.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

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

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Life loves the liver of it.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

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.

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

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.