Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don't give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.