A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

The future is malleable, and to see it, you just have to listen to history and have a grand enough vision. - Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch - Developmental Genetics

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Danity Kane' was a wonderful group, and like all things, nothing is forever. We had a great run and we were very successful.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

He who gives money gives some, he who gives time gives more, and he who gives of himself gives all.

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.