It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren't out to get them.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.