Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

There is not love where there is no will.

All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

My back hurts. My legs ache. I'm only four!

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness.

I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.