We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world.

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.

I know that positive energy begets positive energy. I know that when I decide to see the good in something or someone, it's returned to me tenfold.

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.

Fate, " Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.