After a storm comes a calm.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
It's always too early to quit.
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.