The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede in general from real happiness in proportion as their stores increase as the moon when she is fullest is farthest from the sun.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

Truth is always served by great minds even if they fight it.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question that they do care deeply about justice and they they have open minds.