Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'
I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.
You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
You've gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.
On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single is 'Tonight' so I can show off my fun, young side, and what I want to do as an artist.
Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.
Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
In the western world, you can go out, take a boat trip to the Caribbean and so forth, and buy good things with your own money. But the Russian people with rubles cannot do that.
Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.
If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.
Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
To give your best is to receive the best.
I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.
And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.
It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can make much better music.
Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.
