I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."

Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.

The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.

Ignorance is not bliss its painful and embarrassing

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

He that is not in the war is not out of danger.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.

The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched, but I can’t move. I don’t want to leave, because I don’t know where to go