I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.

When the well's nearly dry and you're not sure you have the strength to persevere, fill up on love and friendship, then take another step, and then another, until you reach your goal.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.

You know what I realized? No one else lives in my memories but me.

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

One HELLO? can change a life.One HELLO? can save a life.

Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

To lose time is to lose life

Whoever said “Success is 80% Joy and 20% Hardwork” must have chased the latter 20% not ignoring the first 80%. Follow the Joy route and the power is already lost.

I never liked you, and I always will.

If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

I'm thinking, 'OK, we're about to fight.' I'm like, 'We're about to get it on right here at the VMAs?

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop.

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.