I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Go, and never darken my towels again

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this.

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive

My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.

The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.