“Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil”

“You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em”

“Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t!”

“Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.”

“God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, dont let no one tell you, you aint beautiful.”

“Well walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”

“The road to success is always under construction”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedn...”

“I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was a...”

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”