Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Know or listen to those who know.
It's always too early to quit.
Only the educated are free.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.