"Weak people cannot be sincere."

"You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have."

"Where ambition ends happiness begins."

"What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!"

"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."

"If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it."

"There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29."

"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."

"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can."

"'If you were my husband, i would feed you poison.' 'If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!"

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."