Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

All art is but imitation of nature.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Disagreement is something normal.

Let go of yesterday.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

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.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.