My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

Sometimes success is disguised as hard work.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.

We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.

Learn to love your work and you'll never have to 'work' again.

You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.

How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing!

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

First feelings are always the most natural.

I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music for me. Everything was groove driven. We lost the plot with the melody. There's no more melody.

Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!