You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

You are the ultimate truth of your life. Everything that happens to you depends on you and your thoughts.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.