Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well.

I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

Singing in front of people. It's like having your heart beat outside of you.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.

Celebrate yourself. Follow your passions and eccentricities, because they are yours alone. You are unique! If everyone did that, I'm pretty sure there would be world peace.

However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.

Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions.

I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.

Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.

I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

It doesn't matter if you have something greater to say per say, just enjoy what you're doing.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

Sometimes magic sounds like tape.