You matter. You're not broken. You're stronger than you think.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

My kids are the most important people in the world to me.

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls.

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.