I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.

After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

I'm not great at putting my hair into a bun, but I'll do it if I have to.

I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

It actually does matter what people think about you.

I mean, hope doesn't get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we'd be out of luck as a country.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.