I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.

I want to be extraordinarily ordinary. I believe that's the most extraordinary a person can possibly be.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

But like everything else, love changed.

She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just—like, a person.

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.