Children always turn to the light.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

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

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

I always entertain great hopes.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Energy begets energy.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Every artist was first an amateur.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Hope is a waking dream.