I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

Don’t just timidly swing at the problems in your life, swing hard enough to knock them out! Small efforts produce small results, big efforts produce big results!

Life growth is like muscle growth, you have to stretch beyond, feed it properly and rest. When you meditate, rest and reflect is when growth happens!!!!

In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ’s enabling you stand back up.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.