No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna

If you follow your dreams, it means you follow your heart. If you do follow your heart, I don't think you can go wrong.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

You don't think of the devil who's inside.

Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt. Don't give up on your faith, love comes to those who believe it...And that's the way it is.

I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.

Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.

I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.