There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

The ripest fruit first falls.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.