Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.

Religions die slowly.

Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

I love everything [Jessica Simpson] ever has on! Jessica can definitely come pick me up in her little Mercedes and take me shopping if she wants!

Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.

If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.

Jazz is my adventure.