“Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.”

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole other world in books.

I’m a perfectionist; I’ll work until I drop.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

I can’t ignore someone that’s in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

It’s been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

You ain’t seen nothing yet, and the best is yet to come.

Study the greats and become greater.

Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die.

Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it.

I don’t think I’m better than other people, I think I’m different from other people, because I do different things.

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans.

We don’t really have any big family traditions; just spending time with each other is the most important part.

Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn’t changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.