I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?

It's not about finding out who you are, it's about creating who you are.

My life is a dream come true of a dream I never knew I even had

We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.

I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.

If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

Live in the now

A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

I'm the anti-rock star. I'm happy just to have a bottle of water.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God.

The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.