The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.