Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

The secret is not to make your music louder. But to make the world quieter.

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.

some things you endure for a reason

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

Never forget the life experiences

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.

Sometime your only blocks are you.... Stop thinking small and play with the unlimited power you have been given.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.

The adults were completely wrong.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.