Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.

One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.

My favorite thing about movies is the ending and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.