When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff,” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right.

All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.