I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Your love is the light that will drive away all the darkness that surrounds you.

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.

I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.

I'm not squeezing the balls. That's not part of my process.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.