If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I can handle pain.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn’t come from your spirit and your soul, it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

I’m afraid to fail again.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.