Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
Only the educated are free.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Know or listen to those who know.
You never know what motivates you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.