A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.

Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you've got into it.

The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness

...losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together.

Adversity often defines dignity.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush