“Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.”

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I’m still here. I have a history of victory.

In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts – it gives you what you demand with your actions.

Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.

Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

Don’t give up! It’s not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.

I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

On the one hand, we’ll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We’ve all experienced that, in one way or another.

At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.