I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Sometimes even the best of us have to lose ourselves in fantasy to survive reality.

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.

Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

Certainly being governor is an important job, and there are quality governors that could serve our country as president and have done so in the past.

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?