“Love is an incredible thing but we don’t know love like we should. Unconditional love we don’t know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.”

It could all be so simple, but you’d rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.

It’s more important to be righteous than to be right.

If you love something and if you’re committed and diligent – the things happen!

Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

Let optimists rule the world.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

I have inner peace. It’s a different person.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.

Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

We’ve got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you’ve just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Consequence is no coincidence.

When you’re young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I’ve graduated from that school.

You truly are the average of the 5 people you surround yourself with.

Be loyal to the royalty within you.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

The chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have. That’s what’s going to define you.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

The characters are born from repetition.