You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.

There is never only one, of anyone

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

It is the small trivial things in life that makes a human happy, like opening a pickle jar.

Solitude is the biggest medicine for once peace, It makes your heart pure and calm.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.