The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

When you decide not to discipline yourself to seek for knowledge in any area, God sees it as the rejection of knowledge.

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.

After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.