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.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

I have never had a NY resolution. While you wait each year to make a resolution you never commit to, I get it done everyday.

The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

I'm a Christian - I really don't believe in UFOs.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.