I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart.

I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun.

When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.

Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.

Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, But will you love me tomorrow?

What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight, " he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.

I don't like it when it stings, ' he said. 'Nobody does.

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

Art is eternal, but life is short.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.