Worship is transcendent wonder.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Fight for what you want. Never allow anything to distract you.

Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.

As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.