Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.

The final word is love.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.