Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.

.....I don't think infinity is a limit.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

It was like two drunks in a back alley throwing punches at each other.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.