Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

Being beautiful is all in the attitude, it's about confidence.

Don't limit yourself because you are a woman because you can do exactly the same that a guy could do.

Remind yourself that when things don't go right, everything will be OK. And if you think that, then everything will be.

Cute accessories always help bring out your outfit and pull it all together.

I think it takes a lot of confidence to be comfortable in being vulnerable.

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

Being young, and having your mom come to school with the laced-up hats and the crazy outfits are definitely moments to remember.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

Everyone loves to dance. I've realized that's a part of what I do more and more every day.

A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.

We have souls, little slices of infinity inside us, and anyone with a soul couldn’t be forgotten by God. He’d never leave behind a part of Himself.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.

We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.