If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

Remember to play after every storm.

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful.

Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

Do not breathe simply to exist.

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

…And my heart openedlike a flower under sky, its petals of desire, its stamens of dreams…

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.