For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

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

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

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

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

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

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

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

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

To create something you must be something.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

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

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

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.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

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.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.