You make your first album you make some money and you feel like you still have to show face like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?

I mean I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just they are crazy they are just like yes well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

The question I've come to think is not what inspires one to change but what inspires one to remain changed.

We the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes we can. In times of great change and tumult presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

As you navigate through the rest of your life be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you spend a lot of time with them and it will change your life.

Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

When you're young you look at television and think there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

The arts quite simply nourish the soul. They sustain comfort inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit beauty intelligence the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The art challenges the technology and the technology inspires the art.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art and can become art but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.