I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Whatever you do, do it well.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it.

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.

There is a magic in distance. Look back at the golden lamp-lit rooms of your home from the road of your life, and it all for a moment is exactly how you hoped it would be: warm, peaceful, safe.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me.

Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game.

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.