Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

For every choice there is a tragedy

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself.

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher

There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.