I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Only where love and need are one, and the work is play for mortal stakes is the deed ever really done for Heaven and the future's sakes.