Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I am just one human being.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Let go of yesterday.

You can’t do something forever.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Always do whatever’s next.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I think I’ve got wiser.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.