The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

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.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]

Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.