This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.
There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and that all the mothers experience. It's not being with them as much as you like.
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.
To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
The beauty of the characters on 'Justified' is that all the human beings that are written are all flawed. Even with the good guys, you see darkness surface.
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.
I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.
Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.
Maybe all teenagers feel like they don't fit in. I never felt like a cool kid. I remember being bullied for being Asian.
Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I've always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who's a musician and is recognised as one is cool.
I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.
