Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.

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

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

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.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Wishes have voices sometimes.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me.

I think, more importantly, it's about who is your core team? Who are the people around you that are going to fight for you and make sure that's all protected?

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.