I got a bright future ahead of me.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.

I try to stay positive and be very, very active.

People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it.

A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.

Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance.

The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.

One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'

We can't turn a blind eye to the importance of the well-being of our children, and we need to pay close attention to building the future leaders of tomorrow.

You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.

Not every relationship works, and that is the truth, and I don't care whether you're a movie star or just a person on the street, normal life. Everybody's normal, relationships are always normal. I think movie stars have a little bit harder time because the cameras are on there all the time. But you have to be who you are.

It's ridiculous to have to base your relationship on money.

I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.

I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams.

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

We are what we believe we are.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.