It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Stop waiting and start working. Stop wishing and start walking.

Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

I thought I was supposed to have a fake six-pack in this scene

You have to learn to be patient and not give up. Look to your parents; they need to be there for you. But having spiritual faith will get you through anything.