To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

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.

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.

...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.

Life starts when you live for someones other than you, and ends when you stop living in others’ hearts! Birth & death are simply incidental.

A photograph captures a magical moment for the future to ponder.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.