You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

One thing you can't do to a fan is change their heart about somebody.

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting that skill.

Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.

Gratitude can't grow love higher than regret.

The calm serenity of the breeze as it blows across the ocean releases the tangled web within my mind.

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Take risks in order to innovate

Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.