As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

You do not need an identity to become yourself

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

Never ever care what people think about you, but what kind of energy you create in them matters the most. So act sensibly!

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world.