It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

The big winner last night in New Hampshire - Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face?

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.