Ask yourself: Where do I want to go? Recognize where you are now, then figure out the steps to get there.

Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.

A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps. A plan becomes a reality only when you take action.

When you control your thoughts and emotions, you control everything.

One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.

You must recognize that we train the people in our lives how to treat us.

Everything begins with a thought, and thoughts are turned into plans, and plans into reality.

Make no apologies for who you are.

Take charge of your environment.

You can only get more in life by saying YES.

The higher the levels, the higher the devils.

Expand Your selfReach out to your big mind, Where the treasures of life you shall find.And you can do this by expanding yourself, You will be able to do that when within yourself you delve.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.

People handle stress in different ways.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people's criticisms of my film choices.

The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.