Fate is a crazy thing.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.