Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

Different isn't evil, it's just different.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.