Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.

Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.

In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

I am a lover for sure. I love to be loved.

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.