Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Hatred is settled anger.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

This is not a bad life.

Fear is real, but so is love.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I’m not a bad person.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Men want to make women happy.