I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Those who do not continuously seek knowledge are content to settle for mediocrity.

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].

If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

A forte always makes a foible.

I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.

I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.