Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.

The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.

There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

Honestly, I didn't think that I would be recognized so easily.