Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

God has prepared our victory for us, if only we will praise Him in all circumstances

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding.

The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.