I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

Expect it, believe it, trust yourself and the process, and allow it to come to you.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.

We all have different ways to do things.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

Riches begin in the form of thought.