If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.

Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

I don't know any teenager with a positive attitude.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

My beauty is dark chocolate and it's delicious and it's sweet.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.

I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.

One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.