There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

I would rather have a man dog then a women dog because they do not bear like women dogs, it is a hard case it is shoking.

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.