If you've got a talent, protect it.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Know or listen to those who know.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Only the educated are free.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.