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?

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

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.

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

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Children always turn to the light.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.