Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

You can't judge people by their cover.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

Dovresti imparare a non avere paura.

If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.

Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

I'm definitely not postmillennial. And I do not believe in bringing in the Kingdom by human means, in no sense of the matter.