some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest

what drives you crazy what keeps you up at night

you must understand the difference between want and need you may want that boy but you certainly don't need him

you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else

do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you

if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

to be soft is to be powerful

accept yourself as you were designed

other women's bodies are not our battlegrounds

i have what i have and i am happy i've lost what i've lost and i am still happy

if the hurt comes so will the happiness

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you

you are your own soul mate

if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else

you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

It feels good when you learn to move on in life.

Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities engaged in and by their places.

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Procrastination only adds stress to your life.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.

My mother was a role model.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.