When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Believe in the promise of today, and have hope in the possibilities of tomorrow

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.