It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

I don’t understand philosophy

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

I have a very hardline position, we have a country or we don't have a country. People that have come into our country illegally, they have to go. They have to come back into through a legal process.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.