Learning is as much an attitude as it is an activity.

We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

It’s better to bite your tongue than to eat your words.

There’s more to life than increasing its speed.

People stop trying when there’s no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.

It’s your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

What counts that we’re not counting?

You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren’t supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

Many people are actually poor because the only thing they have is money.

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.

Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly you do?

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.

I'm just happy our nations are on the same page of keeping shitty reality TV on the air. Small world!

The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.

The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS.