She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

I can't give a Professor love!

ONE ACT OF KINDNESS MIGHT BE THAT GAME CHANGER FOR YOUR DESTINY AND GENERATIONS.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

Life was what you did with what was done to you.

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.