Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

Home isn’t really a place. It’s the people who makes it what it is. I have a great home.

It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

...I seem to want the things I can't have. Occasionally, when something is finally attainable, the chase appears to be over and the fire burns out.

The music comes first. It will always be first

Never ignore someone who loves you and cares about you. 'Cause one day you may realize you lost the moon while counting stars.

It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.

Kissing's no fun when you have herpes

Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.

No amount of wishing will bring back the dead.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

Money promises more than it delivers

i know for sure, to be a leader i have to be a good reader

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.