There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.

I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.