Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Life is short, the art long.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.