I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Again, I've missed you by a minute

When you cannot find a pill for it, try taking a full dosage of responsibility

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.