Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

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

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

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 imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

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

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.