Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

To earn more, you must learn more.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In an ideal world, art would not exist.

Educate thyself through reading

My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.