Even at your best, someone will have something negative to say. Pursue Greatness anyways!

You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.

To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come.

You can't save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough.

Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!

There's about to be a shift in your life. Get ready for your blessings. You've been through enough and a breakthrough is on the way. Don't doubt it, just claim it!

Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it'll take their breath away.

People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done.

Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.

Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

I believe what you believe and you believe what you believe and we'll agree to disagree. It's liberal tolerance meets dark ages denialism. It's very hip right now.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.

Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

Being in the limelight with Glee, I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.