Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

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

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

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.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

How I love David Bowie.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Imagination decides everything.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

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

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Everybody has a purpose.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

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.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

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

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

There is spontaneity to my work.

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

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

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

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.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.