That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.

You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.

Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. Because if you stay in your comfort zone, you would never do the things that you need to do.

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh.

I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.

Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?

Growing another life inside of you is one of the strangest, but most amazing feelings anyone can have.

We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.

In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.