Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.