He lifted himself out of the darkness of his fears, into a bright new world of possibility.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

Revive your soul daily to the dance of soothing music.

You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

I'm comfortable with how I lived my life as the president.

In my twenties, my dad was paying half my rent and my ex boyfriend was paying the other half. I wasn't in a good place!

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.