I am a firm believer that when a person makes mistakes or fails to see the bigger picture, God will remove opportunities from before them.

Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.

When you find a way to incorporate your goals and dreams with what you enjoy most, then you have found success!

Putting 100% effort into "trying" will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

If you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

If you have friends and family who love you unconditionally - you truly have everything!

Forget about what you might have lost but instead focus on what you have room to gain.

All too often we fail to see the good in a difficult situation. Our minds are wired in such a funny way that we tend to believe just because a door closed it must be a bad thing.

If we never experienced the the valuable lessons from failure, then we would never truly appreciate the pure joy of our success.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

The real war will never get in the books.

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

Really anything can happen at any time and we are very addicted to comfort. Life is just not always comfortable.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.