Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

It is always your next move.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Everybody has a purpose.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I was raised to be independent.

I’m afraid to fail again.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.