I feel like I'm making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.

Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.

If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be.

I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.

Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

Life is a beach, and these hoes try'na lay out

To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.