Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.

I am no longer scared to close my eyes and to imagine.

Obviously, genies worked out in their off-hours. He looked so good it was distracting.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars to sail to an uncharted land to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.

I am a singer, not a full-on rapper.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.

Ideas without action are useless.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

I felt like I was hobbling, like one oof the old crones from Act I of Macbeth - God knows my hair felt scraggy enough that I must have looked the part.