When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don't give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.

Blessed is the society that has oldies.

A journey of the mind – a written vision quest – has only one goal: to interact with the world and attempt to develop the dormant intellectual and spiritual awareness of the author.

The best things in life aren't things.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells within you?

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.