Laughter and love are their own forms of exercise meant to keep a body healthy.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life, and life hath immortality

We are meant to be one. And only after we realize that amazing truth can we find what we need – true peace.

Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.""How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.

It's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.

When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.