What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing

I like R&B. I listen to music, not singers.

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.