What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.

Find your happiness before the music of this world falls on deaf ears.

Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others for it is despair mingled with hope.

That’s the hope, isn’t it? To see your family in your time of dying.

God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.

Let the spark in you catch fire and burn into the air, so that it may light up the sky.

What was once thought, so it shall become.

Your marks don’t matter when your radiance is overwhelming. When we’re our best selves we forget all those imperfections and appreciate beauty for how it is.

When the Earth basks in the Sun's brilliance, you'll find me there with my arms spread wide and my face with a smile.

It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.

If it is worth the pain. If it is worth the anguish. Then leave me lying in agony.

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility

In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.

God is about to place Honor where man has placed Dishonor.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

Long before "American Idol" people used to call me a diva. And I be like, "Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva."

Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.