"Failure is the price of excellence."

“Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.”

“You have to make sure there's a lock on your phone because people can hack into your Twitter so fast.”

Source : "Catching up with Camp Rock 2's Jordan "JMan" Francis!". Interview with Teen Mag, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.

“For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Boy Soldier author takes on UN role". www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2007.

“A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!”

“I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.”

“I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.”

“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”

“If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.”