Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

[The American people] would rather invest in themselves than listen to a bunch of people in Washington who do not have a record of fixing anything.