Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave

Personal branding is about figuring who you are and what turns you on and then monetising it

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It's a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It's also easier than a stroller.

I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don't worry about getting married, don't worry about settling down, don't worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

But I don't shut up and I don't die.I liveand fight, maddeningthose who rule my country.For if I liveI fight, and if I fightI contribute to the dawn.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

I watched life and death unfold like a dance on the side of that road. My son was born with a bloodstained face and he died with blood from the accident covering that same face.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.