King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.

Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor, Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never, Because the dance with the devil might last you forever.

Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

The past only has power over you when it's forgotten... ignored or repressed.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.