All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Beauty in the world is not always in the "beautiful.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

To think is to be sick.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

We need a dramatic improvement in the way we train people who get displaced.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.