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

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.

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.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

The future starts within a second from now.The past was, within a second ago.

Time is more than money, it is life.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Never speak of defeat before battle.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

You can't rely on your face or body to convey emotion.

Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.

America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.