"You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don’t deserve it."

“There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.”

“I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.”

“The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.”

Source : Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.9, Basic Books

“For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.”

“When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.”

“Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.”

“In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.”

“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.”