Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.

Empathy is the key to negotiating and resolving conflict.

He swallowed hard and looked deep into my eyes so intensely, I tried hard not to look away. I didn’t want him to see how mildly scared of him I was. I touched the hand in his lap and he answered.

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.