Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

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.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

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

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‚Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do‘.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

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.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Music is really driving my whole life.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

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

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Love is only one of many passions.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.