Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

‎The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.