I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

Pigeons flew in diminishing waves between the low buildings. The sun rose. It said, Now that you've done this, you can never have that. Now that I'm like this, I can never go back.

You're much shorter than my mom.""Brat, " she said, surprised into a giggle."That's no way to talk to a vampire.""Bloodsucking brat.""Better" he said.

If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.

All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

It wouldn't be bad to look like a cross between Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor.