A comfortable and easy life leaves no room for growth. We must therefore embrace our hardships and the lessons they bring.

Don't play the victim role, empower yourself instead. Place yourself and others around you in a position to win.

To fail is to not try at all.

If your actions don't excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you're doing it wrong.

To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true life.

Poisonous people will try to destroy you when they recognize your power this is because they fear what you might become.

Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile.

Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first.

Never hesitate to remove yourself from individuals or situations that threaten your peace of mind.

Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such.

In the vast world of supreme worriorship, courage is what separates one from the crowd.

Moonlight signifies a time when there is hope in darkness, but you have to focus on that hope.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

Marilyn Monroe to me is the epitome of glamour, and always has been since I was a kid.

Paris Hilton is one of the hosts for Nicole Richie’s baby shower, and they’re serving sushi. Awesome, Paris—sushi, the one thing pregnant women are forbidden to eat. Thanks for the mercury.

You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Hate pollutes the mind.