Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.

Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.

Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where previous paths didn’t exist.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.

If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as you want it to look.

My father was a beautiful man.

Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.