I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.

I want to be able to fight for what I'm worth, not someone else's generosity.

I feel like I never get to play any version of myself or get to be a normal person.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.