As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.

His every movement was laced with a lethal combination of grace and strength, a lord among mere mortals. He was confident, arrogant, composed and unfazed by her best efforts to beguile him.

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches.

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.