I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
You are thinking about the music, about the mathematics of it. It's time-consuming and energy-consuming at the same time. That's why I take my time off, my family time, as inspirational. I cool off.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
