Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
It's always too early to quit.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.