“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Don’t let the man bring you down.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Well, I am telling you there is hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

I will never be perfect, nor do I ever want to be seen as such, but when u see me, know you are looking at a fighter. I know you are fighting too so when you see me, I hope you also see you.

There is hope finding you and there is you finding hope.

Hope is a passion for the possible.

And I hope you know that would shake the world to its core if it meant taking away some of your pain.

Paint your scars with the ink of hope.

Happiness is found by filling your voids with a leap of faith.

I just hope that when I die my body is full of scars telling a beautiful life.