It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Solitude helps you to convert your time into clarity of purpose.

The soul is a prolonged anniversary of our lives in this world.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

I think you and the referee were in a minority of one, Billy.

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Sometimes the one person that's bad for you is the person that on a bad day can make you feel good.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.