I just wanted it to be me.

I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.

Determination. No matter what field you're in, determination will surely get you to the top.

I don't mind if people look at me like I'm crazy. I'm just being me.

The best thing is to realize that you are who you are and you gotta work with what you got.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t follow trends. I set them.

I want to show that you don’t have to be older to live your dreams; you can do it at any age

There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

I've always learned how to deal with my problems through my words, through my education, and through my intelligence, which I think is important and the best way to deal with an issue.

A, surround yourself by positive people who will help you reach your goal and support you. And B, go for it!

Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.