I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Failure makes Success more appreciable

A child s a special possession from God.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Prayerlessness is sin.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.