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.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

There’s no formula.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

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.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

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.

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.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

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.

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.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

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.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

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

People everywhere love Windows.

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

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

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

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Children always turn to the light.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

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

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

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.