Don't allow the faults you've made in the past define the person you are today.

Stand up and let the world hear your roar, now spread your wings and begin to soar.

be the rain that causes the rainbow this means, tell someone the hard truth to change their life for the better.

When life pushes you down, just roll with the storm, because at one point you'll push life right back.

The memories of you are dead in my mind, but alive in my heart.

some of the people with the best smiles are actually broken inside

people say I'm running back to the thing that broke me, yeah he did, but I picked myself back up, now it's about fixing him.

Hey, be patient you'll have to kiss a few frogs before you find one that's your prince

Be the thermostat in your community, the one who makes a change. Not the thermometer who, just watches

I saw you, I loved you, but now I miss you, and I still can't speak because I know you hate me.

You can't fly if you don't get the courage to grow your wings.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

Some hold grudges for a lifetime, unaware that courageously forgiving those who have wronged us is wholesome and therapeutic.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Ay Dad, brush my hair one time. Hey pops! Come brush my hair.

Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.