it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

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

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

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

I felt ashamed of being different and ashamed of feeling that way.

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.

Coffee first. Schemes later.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

I think America is a great place to grow up. It's a good lifestyle.

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

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

It's when you stretch the truth that you end up with lies.

Test cricket is the only thing that counts. One-day and T20 performances are fine, but you rate a player by his status as a Test player. By the time I finish, I want to play at least 80 Tests and be known for my achievements in Tests.

I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process.

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

I love the people at my job. I love my boss. I love my camera men, I love my crew - because they all surrounded me with straight love.

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

Good Friday. Way of the Cross. Fasting and abstinence. Examine conscience. Have a really blessed day.

To be honest, whatever troubles I've had, I've also gotten the opportunities to do things.

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

Theres a difference between trying to control students and establishing control of your classroom. Rules are about compliance. Procedures are about coherence.