At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.

I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

Life is too short to be serious

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

Just be you...'cause that's good enough for me!

I've got the rest of my life to be a grown-up. And for now, it's OK to be young.

I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.

The show must go on all over the place or something.

When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape...

Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.