Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

My heart is unlimited in the amount of love, but it is limited in the passion and commitment.

Patience is also a form of action.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

I feel that we're all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.