it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness. They purchased that greatness but only through the currency of time.

There is strength in kindness.

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

The most beautiful soul is the soul in love!

I get out of the car, and I'm blasted by the stench of body odor. Cricket is beside me, and he's talking, but his words don't reach my ears.Because it's my mother.Smelling.On my porch.

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

I am the one I have been looking for.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.