Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

Still when I'm a mess I still put on a vest With an 'S' on my chest Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.

You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

If a man can save himself, there is no need for a Saviour.

We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen.

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.