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

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

All art is but imitation of nature.

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.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

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.

Art is the proper task of life.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

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

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

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I want people to draw strength from me.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

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

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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

In art the best is good enough.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

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

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

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

Exploration by real people inspires us.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

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.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

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.

Always do whatever’s next.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.