I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

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.

Great is God.

Without ambition, nothing is achieved. Without work, nothing will be completed. The prize will not be sent until you earn it.

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...

You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to the world from running you plumb crazy

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

When you have an audience, and you have people who want to see your character and want to see you, it's really amazing.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.