Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Genius, when young, is divine.

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

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

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

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

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

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

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

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

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

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn’t very good-looking. But in his own way he’d always save the day.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.