Stephen Lewis Quotes

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

I don't know if you can hear me, but I have heard you. I heard your willingness to change. Your force, your hope... and I want to tell you how grateful I am. Thank you, thank you, thank you, people of France.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.

There's not an anti-Toto spray that will keep us down.

I've met quadriplegics who have lost the use of their limbs but not their spirit. They are not dark, defeated people.

I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity.

I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.