She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.

How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

I would like to have a girlfriend who is more mature than my mental age.