'I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.'

'I mean, come on, hello! The way I see it, I'm not that big of a prize'.

'If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.'

'I'm never really comfortable with people cheering for me.'

You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. because, I mean I don't want to be like 'As Confucius say,' but under the sky, under the heavens the…

Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....

But we [Americans] are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body …