As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

Awareness is empowering.

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.

I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.

I'm not trying to prove anything.

She would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

Success is not a secret – it never has been. There are only a few really good ideas and not one of them is a secret.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.