Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

I never fall in love because love is always inside me.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

There is no prayer so blessed as the prayer which asks for nothing.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—