To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

When there is no vision people perish.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

I guess NBC must have noticed that one of my main staples is social media. So, when they approached me for The Voice, I thought "Why not be the first one to do it?"

I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most interesting of all the cults I studied.

Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

If you want to be rich, think big, think differently.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.