“My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.”

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”

“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”

“'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.”

“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

“I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.”

“Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.”

“Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.”

“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.”

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”

“President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.”

“The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.”

“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

“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.”

“You change your life by changing your heart.”

“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.”

“Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.”