Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don't give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.

Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Who you are authentically is alright.

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured...it was like coming home.