If the kids don't believe, make them believe.

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Dreams don't always have to exist while the sun's down and your eyes are shut

Therapy is about every kids nightmare when people are telling you that you need to get help but all you really want is a hug.

You are who you are and that's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.

Being a fan doesn't mean being there from the start... It means being there till the end.

Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.

It’s always nice to hear that you’re appreciated for all that you do.

Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.

I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these [4-inch YSL heels] ... I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.