Savor life authentically.

Those who win are those who think they can.

Iterate. Iterate Iterate.

You can't avoid success if you disown your fear.

Failure is inevitable, success is optional.

The uber successful are those who breed success in others.

Obstacles are a measure of the intensity of your passion.

Excellence never seeks excuses.

If they aren't laughing at your goals, you are not dreaming big enough.

The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it.

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Love everything around you

Sophie had survived on her own for a long time. She knew she didn't need a man, not even Darius. But she wanted him. That made all the difference in the end.

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you should not be able to buy a gun with no questions asked.

You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.

In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.