I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Jim Rohn

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Jay London

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann von Goethe

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Tom Cruise

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

Lily Collins

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

Mahatma Gandhi

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

George Carlin

Educated men are so impressive.

William Shakespeare

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Chinese Proverb

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Cyril Connolly