Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.

God is even in a single parent household.

The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it

Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven’t been made yet.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

I'm not a feminist at all.

Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.