“Not all wounds need healing, not all scars are ugly.”

Darling, you are a dime, but some men prefer pennies, and that’s okay.

Let’s get drunk off the stars and tell each other everything we’re afraid to say sober.

Somethings that break you end up healing you.

People say a lot. So, she watches what they do.

Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.

She had eyes that I would miss sunsets for.

Somethings that break you end up healing you.

People say a lot. So, she watches what they do.

Listen. Her silence tells a story.

My heart beats differently for you.

She’s not rude. She’s just done tolerating less than what she deserves.

Don’t give him another thought, baby girl. He wanted a cup of tea; you’re a shot of whiskey.

She was strong enough to be gentle all the time.

Perfection is just a lie, failure’s not forever, rejection is but a sign, darling you are a treasure.

It is not a coincidence that the strongest people tend to have the most scars.

She’s like a stiff drink I can’t get enough of, the first real obsession I can’t help but love.

It’s hard to remember a time when I wasn’t writing.

Guess I’m hangin’ by myself but I don’t mind.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

When there’s doom and gloom, don’t forget there’s darkness before dawn.