I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Dear 2016, If I had any defeats in your team, I am glad they were on my terms.Love, Defeated Winner

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.