Our best thoughts come from others.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

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.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

The cautious seldom err.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

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 have art in order not to die of the truth.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

All art is but imitation of nature.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Imagination decides everything.

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

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.