Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

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.

Night is the mother of counsels.

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

You are asleep and have forgetten that you are dreaming. You mistakenly believe you are awake.

That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.