I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

A lot of straight and transgender boys get in touch with me through my website and social media. They tell me I'm inspirational and beautiful. It boosts my self-esteem.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

We convince by our presence.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.