Faith Hill is a big role model.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

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

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

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

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

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.

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

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

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.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

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

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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.

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.

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.‘

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

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

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.