I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

I think any teenager, any single parent household teenager growing up in New York City, will probably go through tumultuous years. I definitely did. It all sort of righted itself once I definitively got on the path of being a musician or, like, following that directly.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

You have to turn the lemons life gives you into lemonade, and you have to take time to sit back and enjoy it.

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Convictions are lessons learned from experiences we'd never want to go through again, but wouldn't trade for anything in the world.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

Because love doesn't stop just because you run. Love keeps reaching out. Keeps believing, even when it feels impossible.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. And sometimes you have to find those happy places in between the pain.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.