Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I know that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have paved the way and they have been a source of inspiration.

I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.

Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume