Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

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

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

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

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

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

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.