Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

If gifted with unbelief, even when the train of success stops at your doorstep you will still miss it.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.