Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.

Your greatest path of influence is love.

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth.

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me?

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

Its always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, Ive been lucky with the things Ive been asked to do.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.

When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Good education has got to be good entertainment.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.