Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

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.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

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

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

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.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

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

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.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

Faith Hill is a big role model.