Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Life can only be understood backwards

A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.

Key message to all patients: Let go of all negativity and empower your body through your positivity.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about.

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.