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.

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.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

You broke meI’m trying to put allthe piecesback togetherThe processis takinglonger than expected.

If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.