There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

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

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

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

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

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

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‚A miracle a minute‘ would not be a bad slogan for God.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

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

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

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

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

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.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

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

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

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

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.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.