Imperfections make you more beautiful.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.