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

some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest

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

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

It's our human nature to explore. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species walked out of Africa, traveling far and wide across the entire planet, from the Arctic to the tip of Tierra Del Fuego, making us the most geographically diversified species on Earth.

Knitting, he thought, was a comfort to the soul.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

We Americans are childish about our celebrities and icons. We worship, then we denounce; we identify passionately with them and then, if they do something - anything - we dislike, we cast them off.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

I know people who are always freeriders and will never get into a fight.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what it is you are free of the mind. You have made room for love for joy for peace.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesnt mean she cant have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

I consider myself a musician.

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.