This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this.

The greatest leader in your life is your mind. It is what controls your feelings and emotions.

I’ve known a boy. I’ve measured beauty. What more do I want?

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

I'm ingrained in a lot of - almost too many - causes and struggles around the world because that's where I come from.

God is always near His people, but their sinful behavior may cause His presence to be grievous.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.

A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.