Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

My happiness is not going to be driven solely on whether we win a Super Bowl or not.

Vulnerability is important in life, I feel. That's what allows you to experience intense emotions, whether it's joy or pain or sadness.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.