Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

The bigger your mission becomes, the greater inspiration you will be given.

Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

I like to take inspiration from people who do things that I could never do.

Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.

To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.

There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.

The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

Each person is different and each one will reach God by his or her own path.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

Thirteen at a table is unlucky only, when the hostess has only twelve chops.

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.

What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

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