The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm sick of this poem, you probably are too.

American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

As Carl Jung put it, "In each of us there is another whom we do not know." As Pink Floyd sang, "There's someone in my head, but it's not me."

Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it.

There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.

The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.