To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

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.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Music is really driving my whole life.

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.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I want people to draw strength from me.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

I dwell in possibility.

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

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

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

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.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

How I love David Bowie.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

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 successful men I admired all built their bodies.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

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.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

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

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.