Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.

Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.

The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

It may be over but it won't stop there, I am here for you if you'd only care

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.