It takes courage and resilience to be true to ourself. We have to know that we will be okay even if others reject or ridicule us. We have to know it won’t destroy us.

We aren’t teaching our children to thrive. We teach them to survive. It’s not the same thing. Resilience increases thriving without taking anything away from others.

It's the duty of every man to free himself. Never accept to live an underdog's life in god’s world.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can't do it, you can't do it. It's a simple formula!

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

I'm going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of America.

To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.

Anything is possible after midnight.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.