I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

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.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

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

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

What is past is prologue.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Nothing can come of nothing.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.