But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124

...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...

I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

Beauty is more than skin deep.

Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes.

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.

There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you wouldn't necessarily have the confidence to go on your own.