If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.

Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind.

My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder, " which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

I don't think the Democrats need a silver bullet.

I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.