When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

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

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

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

My life is my message.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

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 like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

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

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

Big results require big ambitions.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.