Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.

While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.

Pro-life includes improving life after birth.

The only way to heal is to look at the Cross, to look at God Who takes upon Himself our sins: my sin is there.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.