There were no ugly people in Ethiopia

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

‎The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

Pursue your heart's deep driving desires with joy and love.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?

Christ came to bring healing to those who are spiritually sick-you say that you are perfectly well, so you must go your own way and Christ will go in another direction-towar ds sinners.

I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

My strength has always been slow songs, so I never deviated from that, I always took care of my base and that's just doing slow songs and just pouring out my heart in songs.

The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.

I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

I always want to push myself, even though I'm not in the entire thing. My friend Taylor says, "If you're the smartest person in the entire room, you're in the wrong room."