I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.

There's no substitute for hard work. If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat, but you'll never lose.

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way.