It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.

I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow.

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,'' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.'' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.