It's always too early to quit.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.