Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Poor people can't understand this: It's not what you do that creates a fortune, but who you are.

Today I feel like I did tomorrow.

I knew you were no longer mine when you no longer see me as something dazzling that made you lose your mind. You don't see me as the artwork you once fell in love with.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything.