I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

Work is an almost pure expression of the self.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.