Because of a great love, one is courageous.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

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.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

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.

Friends are thieves of time.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

My wife and I love each other very much.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

A word after a word after a word is power.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Hope is a waking dream.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

It is always your next move.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

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

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

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

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.