Working hard and succeeding will make you feel valuable and important - thus the cornerstones of a confident personality is you, yourself.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

Her hair was full of lights

You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

Be yourself and true to yourself. You can do different things in the world.

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.