The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

Never make a decision until you have to.

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

Please don't die.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

Nothing this world has to offer can even compare to experiencing God’s pleasure.

Jesus was and is the greatest restoration specialist of all time.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

Forever and forever and forever

All poetry is political, to some degree.

Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live