As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me.Would it make you feel betterTo watch me, while I bleed?All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don't give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?