I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.

I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.