If you can’t see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you’re not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

How much your life sucks, or how awesome your life is, is really all determined by how much fear controls your life.

Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn't make you happy, contentment does.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

I do my very best to not allow external trends or zeitgeists to feed into what I'm producing.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.