Tell more people that you love them. You never know how much they might need it.
People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do. . . but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.
Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.
If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.
2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history ; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed.