If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.

Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.

Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.

If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.