You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.
I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.
Honesty is all you need.
I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.
You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.
If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!
Death may be the King of terrors. . . but Jesus is the King of kings!
Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.
People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. . . . It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.
Knowledge is the only elegance.