I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

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.

With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself.

Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you're taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me.

Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

We don't get to choose what truths God reveals to us -- but we do get to choose what we do with the truths -- whom we share it with and how.

To create is to be divine.

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.