“Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.”

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don’t think that there’s a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

How much I daydream about heaven and how much I believe I’m going there are probably directly proportional.

I can’t believe that I’ve written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn’t bother releasing music anymore.

I believe the children are our future

I believe in creative visualization.

I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.