Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.

The future begins today.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

You’d be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

It feels so good to laugh at myself. I'd probably cry my eyes out if I didn't.

Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?" "No.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.