Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.

Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.

Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.