I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Fayez whistled low. “That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y’know, whatever.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.