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

All of my writing is God-given.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

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

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

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

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

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