Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important

When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.

I feel like I had zero control over getting cancer, but I have 100 percent control over how I will respond to dealing with cancer.

This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love.

I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.

But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them.

I hear music as narrative.

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

I’m not looking for self-control.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.