You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.

In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with so many situations that demonstrate that this is so.

An unpleasant experience will often reveal your passion.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Be patient, persistent and above all, believe.

The word “brand” has now taken an individualized and highly personalized shift toward how you are perceived in the minds of others.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

What lives in words is what words were needed to learn.

If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.