You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference

Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you

True leaders are born when you find something to die for

Happy people think about how to help others and not how to get from others.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

You'd have a good voice, if it ever came out of your throat

The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.

The team is an extension of the coach.

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.