Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Life is a song to me.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Water’s never clumsy.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

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.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

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

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.