Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.