Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Goals keep you motivated and they give you a direction. That way you're not just aimlessly training and doing too much of one thing and not enough of another.

Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.