If I could go back and say one thing to my younger self it would be: YOU ARE NOT FAT.

Live your life striving to complete the journey to your vision

Bad doesn't leave your life until you start consciously injecting good into your life through positive thinking.

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

At some point, we all have to let go.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.

You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.