I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

Divine providence for next dimension is a natural as rest, food and water are to our natural bodies. Rest, Arise and Eat for the challenges ahead of you are too great for you.

The highest form of intelligence is wisdom

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins