My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

Knowledge can be acquired from others. Understanding is your own.

If we are with someone out of choice, we should act accordingly, and choose to communicate rather than deteriorate.

(Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?)

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

President [George] Bush made the U.S. absolutely the leader, between its own PEPFAR, and it's been by far the biggest Global Fund donor. That's a legacy.

If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.