In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

What we may think is funny or cute may end up being powerfully hurtful.

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.

Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

[To lose twenty pounds] is not even about how much I lose and how fast, it's so much about being healthy.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.