Beware by whom you are called sane.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice — it's trying to protect you.

Sometimes you should be fake... to be honest is the thing which used against you... too much of you could kill ya.

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I caught a pebble in the moonlight.

Change begins within: the world is as you are.

Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.