No one can stop you from shinning if you are standing in your own light.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars never will, but i'd rather have Harley's colors.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!

I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.