It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

This is Annabeth, ” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.

E andando nel sole che abbagliasentire con triste meravigliacom'è tutta la vita e il suo travaglioin questo seguitare una muragliache ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia.

That's when I decided once and for all that we were doomed. It was that or I would die right there and then.

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

I was always a God guy.

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.