“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”

“If you lay down and act like a doormat... then you are sure to get walked on.”

“First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down.”

“The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.”

“If you want to improve the world, first improve yourself. If you want to improve yourself, read a book.”

“Lay down the song you strum,And rest yourself 'neath the strength of stringsNo voice can hope to hum.”