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

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

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

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

I hope to direct a feature very soon. That is a big goal for me. I'm looking forward to hopefully getting that opportunity.

A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

In creating a new character, it's sometimes difficult to find a touchstone, a North Star that will always point you in the direction that character will travel.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.

Behind every great daughter is a truly amazing dad.

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

People buy my albums, and I love my albums when I do them because we try to record live with that same energy, but I can never get the energy that I have when I'm live.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

Its only kids in high school who are convinced theyre never going to change. Theres always going to be a pep rally and theres always going to be a spectator bus somewhere out there in the future.

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.

You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.