Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Be busy. It is the cheapest medicine on the Earth - and one of the most effective.

For a wise man, a new life begins every day.

Critisize - the right way to make enemies.

No tomorrow. The day of man's salvation is today.

A strong desire to learn something is already 50% of success.

Fear does not exist anywhere else except in your mind.

A smile is worth nothing, but it is valued dearly...

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

Well, I had a wonderful career.

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

The real demon in my life is my father.

Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.

Respect is appreciation of the separateness of the other person of the ways in which he or she is unique.

Fifty is an excellent age... if you're a bottle of wine.

I am never going to give music up.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy.

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.

The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight.

I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.