“I try to be that inspiration, you know. It’s not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it’s not. People don’t have to be afraid of it; they don’t have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.”

I feel like that’s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, it’s over. You feel like you can’t be stopped.

Staying humble is the only way you can be great.

I’ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, I’m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded.

For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything’s not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease.

Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.

Every actor has his own identity. I don’t aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

I truly believe that diversity is so important, and I hope that I can use my platform to encourage and inspire other aspiring female artists.

I aspire to be an old man with an old wife laughing at old jokes from a wild youth.

When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…

Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

The courageous girl I write about is the girl I aspire to be.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.