Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me.

Spiritual dating is about listening to your instincts and not rushing into anything.

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.

As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.

Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.