Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.

You can't become a millionaire until you think like one.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.