It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it.

By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.

What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves

Something happens when you are alone most of the time, when there are no distractions. Your mind grows more powerful--muscular, even. It takes over and starts to carry you.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

Behold not with anger the sins of man, but forgive and cleanse.

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.