Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

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.

You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser.

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

After you eat a Hot Pocket, Everything will taste like rubber for a month!

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.