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.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

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

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

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

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

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

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

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.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

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 every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

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.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Paris ain’t much of a town.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

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

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

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

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.