Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.

Your real identity is your spiritual being. And every problem, if you're a spiritual being, every problem has a spiritual solution.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

Slow down, simplify and be kind.

It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.

Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.