Do it yourself. Keep going. Many people have said these things to me many times and both are good pieces of advice. I like getting on with things.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

A drop of hope can create an ocean, but a bucket of faith can create an entire world.

I'm proud by not being frustrated, jealous or too confused by remaining creative. It's very easy to give up, and to keep going and sticking to your own ethos is very difficult.

My proudest accomplishment is my daughter Ella. Because she is a great person, great personality. She not really my accomplishment, she is her own, but I had something to do with it.

I'd like to be remembered for music that moves people, that takes them some place else, that means something to them, reminds them of a good time or place, some memory, some positive moment.

I can't function without coffee and I cannot refuse chocolate. Drink I gave up years ago and don't miss it in the slightest. But I think I'd collapse without coffee.

I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused... I have longed for Egypt and have been given a wilderness.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

When a human's tears dry up forever, they transform into a monster

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.

I was just wondering why you're here.