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

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Always do whatever’s next.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‚A miracle a minute‘ would not be a bad slogan for God.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

I want people to draw strength from me.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Nothing can come of nothing.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‚Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do‘.

Genius, when young, is divine.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.