I'll be honest with you: love is not always what we think it is. It is a roller coaster ride going through this, and it's beautiful at the same time.

Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

I think that every day we are taught lessons and sometimes we don't realize or see it.

You do learn from what you've done in the past.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

Make deals with people, not paper.

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.