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

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

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.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

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

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

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

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

The earth laughs in flowers.

When I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

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

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Where love is, there God is also.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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 wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.