Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago

Classical slap-stick rappers need Chapstick.

Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.

You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.

Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.