Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Knowledge is learning something from every observation wisdom is learning to use that knowledge with love.

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.