You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.

Never lose hope because although miracles are rare, they are possible.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.

I have a necklace around my neck that my lady gave me, so I try never to leave home without that.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't even read.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.