Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

I don’t want followers.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

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.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

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

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

Well done is better than well said.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

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.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.