Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Music is really driving my whole life.

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.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

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

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

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

Looking back on the production of ‚Nevermind,‘ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Life is a dead-end street.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

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

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

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

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

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.

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.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

All of my writing is God-given.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

Music can change the world because it can change people.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I’m constantly thinking.