I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul, ' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.