I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Naivete in grownups is often charming

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

Tim Tebow cannot dance, I know that. Tebow can do a lot of things, but he can not dance.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.