Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

There are few certainties in life, one of which is: life is short.

Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.

If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.

Your life is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to Him.

If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.