I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

Foolish heart, hear me calling. Stop before you start falling. Foolish heart, heed my warning; you've been wrong before. Don't be wrong anymore.

There's always a price for what you want.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

You can’t embrace your whole life if you’re shut down.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.

Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice. Some are made of witchcraft and wolf and a little bit of vice.

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.