"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."

"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

"Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."

"It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success."