If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something.

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive.

You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk.

Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.

Cheer up, love. Have faith it will get better, and if it don’t, well darlin’ that is what your knees are for. Pray pray pray.

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.

Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it.

To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

May you find the path of peace.

Even though I had been broken, I was strong enough to love again someday.

True simplicity is elegant.

Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.

Let's as this House send a very clear message to British Muslims that we value you, we value your contribution, and we will take this petition very seriously.

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.