Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.
God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.
It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.
Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!
Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.
Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.
True love can come more than once.
I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.
I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.