But my strength was in singing and songwriting which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting which is what was closest to my heart then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget but in the size of our hearts in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
When you call upon a Thoroughbred he gives you all the speed strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass he kicks.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.
I do think the heart can balance out the mind if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart and with the whole soul with all his strength and with all his will.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
My heart lies in music and acting however my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
I think every artist should follow their vision their hearts is what they need to reveal not something that society is looking out for.
I believe that writers unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite are at heart people who live by night a little bit outside society moving between delinquency and conformity.
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children because they will become a drag on our society.
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
Smile it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.