Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

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.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Man is by nature a political animal.

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

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

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.

I love life because what more is there?

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

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

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

People want to feel hopeful.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.