a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility

why are you so unkind to me my body cries cause you don't look like them i tell her

i hear a thousand kind words about me and it makes no difference yet i hear one insult and all confidence shatters - focusing on the negative

i reduced my body to aesthetics forgot the work it did to keep me alive with every beat and breath declared it a grand failure for not looking like theirs foolish enough to not realise i was already living in one

we have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view - live fully

you do not just wake up and become the butterfly - growth is a process

despite knowing they won't be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers

wish pure love and soft peace upon the ones who've been unkind to you and keep moving forward - this will free you both

if i am the longest relationship of my life isn't it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person i lie in bed with each night - acceptance

borders are man-made they only divide us physically don't let them make us turn on each other - we are not enemies

never feel guilty for starting again

i will no longer compare my path to others - i refuse to do a disservice to my life

trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does - it is speaking to you

it is a trillion-dollar industry that would collapse if we believed we were beautiful enough already

their concept of beauty is manufactured i am not - human

how do i shake this envy when i see you doing well sister how do i love myself enough to know your accomplishments are not my failures - we are not each other's competition

we need more love not from men but from ourselves and each other - medicine

you are a mirror if you continue to starve yourself of love you'll only meet people who'll starve you too if you soak yourself in love the universe will hand you those who'll love you too - a simple math

what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn that since day one she's already had everything she needs within herself it's the world that convinced her she did not

No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes to heal youll never get through it without your friends.

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.

I was a regular kid with a normal family life.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field

My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

If you care about what you do, you don't want to let people down.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.

Don't fall in love with everything that you may have read and everything that you may have heard from any political leader, including myself.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.