This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone.

We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world.

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.

We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.

I know that positive energy begets positive energy. I know that when I decide to see the good in something or someone, it's returned to me tenfold.

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.

It often takes a period of time before what God has done in the spiritual world manifests in the physical world.

Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.

How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.

The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.