I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity.

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.