Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Only the educated are free.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Know or listen to those who know.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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.