It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my lifefor our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

If you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry.

Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.

Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

I'm just another link in the chain.

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.

If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.