“Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.”

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, ‘relax. Exhale. Say, ‘I can do this!’ And then do it.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure’s gone we learn what to treasure.

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

If you understand ‘it’ will come, then you’ll understand ‘it’ will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen … infectious.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.

Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value – democracy.

The fact that our message and my lyrics can have a positive impact on someone’s life is really astounding.

As we help others, we cannot help but help ourselves.

I have been blessed by God. And if I’m blessed, there is one reason and one reason only, and that is to help others.