I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.