Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.

Don't live your life to please other people.

You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.