You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

It’s not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.

If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.