When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don’t believe in ghosts.

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.

I think my mission is to be in business so I can create a positive impact that will uplift the others around me. (p. 78)

Observe your internal and external world and rise above it.

We had a saying that the fun stops at one.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

I think if you love someone, you think that they're out of your league, of course. I go for the full package though, you know, like not everything is based on looks. I go for talent and funny.

The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.