Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface.

Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.

And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.

Once they know they've got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all world to see. And you become less than it. You become something disgusting.

Let's life bring a joy, and let's realise that this now is a lie and to make a truth. To make a real life!

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...

You must market your marketing.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

People stereotype pop stars, but Christina [Aguilera] proves them wrong with her unique style and talent.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.